UT - Little Creek Mesa - Mountain Bike Trail Review with Map and Pictures

DRIVING MAP!!!  Use gooseberry driving map TOO

Description - This is my new best most favorite riding area period..  What an awesome adventure..  I came here after so many days of riding I had nothing legs were dead..  That being said I somehow forgot about pain for 6 hours and 20 miles of kick arse riding..  The terrain, awesome singletrack, with technical rocks, drops, swoops..  So many varieties, eye candy all day, and im not just talking about PMD..  From Super buff grass lined single to fun rocky sections, to deep red, to brown slaty clanky, some boney..  Slickrock - my only ever so slight complaint about gooseberry is that it does all tend to look the same after a while, same rock, about the same amplitude.  This place was so cool, the rock changes the whole ride, white, red, brown, purple pink, rocky road ice cream swirl, yellow mold, pools of water, couple ponds..  Some crazy texture and formations, moon like..  TONS of lizards, I mean millions, with you all the way..

Trails are a tad hard to follow in places, but we didnt spend more than 5 minutes looking for cairns..  Bring a map, bikerag map is the best, really, may be the only map..  GPS would help too.. Bring every map you can..  Have fun, allow time to get lost..  no white dots but some black dots on the north side..

Loops - Puke loop - This is how we rode, it was a good ride..   from car down fire road take right at cairn, follow trail to junction and try to remember what it looks like!!!  take a right, this is the big loop CCW, follow till you hit a BIG pointy cairn see pics.  Take right, at one point where there is a HUGE open slickrock view you may loose the trail and it actually FORKS (see map), take the right option, really cool rocky road slickrock..  Follow to point, gets easier to follow on the edge of cliff, keeps going on and off to single track..  Go back and this time take the right option..  Back at pointy cairn 3 way intersection take right on singletrack..  Follow to short innner loop (you will ride this twice), end of loop it gets a little confusing at fire road after you pass the pond...  Fire road goes straight, you should go right up a wash looking area, look for tire tracks, go in 50 feet should be evident. Now your on the big loop Clockwise (CW)..  Lots of single track mixed in..  Follow along north rim you will start to see black circles or horshoes, I forget..  This trail leads back to small loop, follow to pond and if you want take the bushwacky trail north of the pond or take the FR back..

Nearest Coffee, Sushi or other food:  Springdale (foot of Zion NP) Pizza Noodle 5 Stars. Good beer (Polygamy Porter).  Or OSCARS - Breaksfast!! LINNER!!